ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The wonderful world of retail. The Retail Trends Shaping How We Shop in 2022. From a digitally-transformed shopping experience to global supply chain disruptions and a pandemic that refuses to quit, there’s one thing retailers can count on: People are always going to shop. My credit card statement will also attest to this fact).

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 7, 2011

(NYSE: N), the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today (June 7th) announced that the company has extended its cloud -based business management suite with new demand planning features. allowing companies to tightly align sales forecasts with inventory replenishment plans.

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Precoro

JUNE 3, 2025

Businesses often use it in retail and purchasing. Category management isn’t just another procurement trend. It’s a way for companies to group similar goods or services (like IT infrastructure, facilities, or raw materials) and manage them holistically instead of handling every purchase in isolation.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 3, 2018

These complexities, layered with globalization, shorter product life cycles , and associated volatility in demand planning, has produced the most dynamic supply chain landscape we have ever experienced. Supporting an efficient digital path to purchase requires comprehensive digital collaboration.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2022

Clearing the stale inventory has helped the world’s largest retailer relieve pressure on their stores and through their supply chain. In times of high inflation, LIFO alleviates the “inventory profit” that would result if old inventory, purchased at a lower price, was used to calculate profits. Demand Planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

<Bear with me… > Here I share a nine-step process in an attempt to help companies unravel the process for buying supply chain planning software. Let’s face a hard fact: the supply chain planning market is a mess. They center on how to make a good decision in the purchase of supply chain planning solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

While time slot management applications work as a stand-alone application, it is more valuable when it is integrated into with other applications on a common platform such as warehouse- and yard management or visibility solutions. Can Improving Forecast Accuracy Address Our Demand Planning Woes?

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Retail workers are at the heart of the economy, making the continued retail labor shortage a top challenge for retailers–one that appears here to stay. Get the real story on today’s retail worker shortage, as we break down: Retail Labor Shortage Statistics. The Need for Corporate Retail Talent.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 3, 2022

Retail is detail. And there is a lot of ‘detail’ for retailers to manage and factor into the business every day. When it comes to external variables, nothing is more consistently and directly impactful on demand than the weather. How Weather Influences Retail Demand. It all evens out in the end.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. For businesses of all sizes, the digital transformation of supply chain planning became the most important initiative. . Planning platforms can pull data from multiple internal and external data sources.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 30, 2024

Leading beauty retailer choose ToolsGroup to optimize inventory and automate omnichannel supply chain planning across multiple countries. This move automates their omnichannel supply chain planning and shifts them from a supply-driven to a demand-driven model.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Procurement has never played such an important role in the increasingly globalised economy. Has procurement fundamentally changed itself in the past 10 years? Strategic Procurement can mean totally different things in different industries and sectors. The time when Procurement was almost a synonym to Purchasing has long gone.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 3, 2020

There are a few solutions to this phenomenon. Increased replenishment frequency in smaller quantities can smooth out the flow, as can just-in-time ordering, integrated multi-level supply chain optimization and–in an ideal world–orchestrated demand signal sharing between retailers, distributors and manufacturers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As a result, a wide range of businesses, from restaurants, and retail chains, to manufacturers, have been redesigning their business services and operations and re-engineering their supply chains. Emerging Themes for Supply Chain Planning. Step 4 – Closing the Loop and Getting Real-time Visibility. and Europe.

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Silvon Software

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For Greater Product Performance Visibility and Improved Sales & Demand Planning Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers operate in an increasingly competitive environment, where the ability to access and analyze timely, accurate data can make or break a company’s success. Each retailer organizes their data differently.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As we head into the holiday season, supply delays, logistics constraints and inflation are looming over shoppers and retailers—and the manufacturers and distributors who keep them in supply. One of the ways to ensure your supply chain is ready for the next crisis is to test its resiliency by leveraging digital S&OP tools. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

However, VF is mitigating this by continuing to diversify their supply footprint, making earlier commitments on raw materials and inventory purchases, leveraging their existing relationships with carriers to secure additional capacity and equipment, ship into more ports, hiring more carriers, and even chartering full-size jetliners when appropriate.

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Logility

AUGUST 11, 2020

In most countries since early spring, there has been an unparalleled wave of stockpiling by panicked consumers leading to near empty retail shelves. For example, read the recent article in Supply Chain Dive, From Visibility Software to Pallet Picks: How Tillamook Planned Inventory as Demand Soared.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

The regulation is designed to provide European consumers with extensive data about the provenance of the items they purchase, all the way back to the sourcing of raw materials. Time to Start Preparing for the Digital Product Passport SCB FEATURE Selling Into the EU? Complying with the rule will be no easy task.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 11, 2025

Rapid development of advanced planning and scheduling tools The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just expose the vulnerabilities of physical supply chains; it also revealed the critical need for digital agility. At first, there was a surge in essential purchases as people stockpiled necessities like toilet paper.

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Logility

APRIL 26, 2021

Research firms, solution providers, and pundits have struggled to standardize the nomenclature. Some refer to it as sales and operations planning (S&OP or SOP). Some call it ‘sales, inventory and operations planning’ (SIOP). And then there’s ‘merchandising, inventory and operations execution’ (MIOE), for the retail sector.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

That takes a data-driven approach to forecasting, procurement and distribution. How Systems, Forecasting, and Planning Help Manufacturers “Win the Super Bowl So, how can manufacturers prepare for this massive event? As mentioned, the secret is agility, resilience, and efficiencyoptimizing your people, processes and systems.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

It is just not enough to do a software upgrade or slowly push continuous improvement projects. The Company also has franchised aftermarket services in automotive repair shops, retail outlets, and everything in between. This enabled improvements in Sales and Operations Planning. He needed to find new solutions.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Moreover, the proliferation of e-commerce is reshaping how aftermarket products are purchased. Consumers increasingly turn to online platforms to buy replacement parts and accessories due to the convenience of browsing a wide range of products, comparing prices, and making purchases from home.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Joint Microsoft and ToolsGroup planning solution will support POOLCORP’s goals of improved service to customers and increased profitability amid demand and supply volatility. That’s why global leaders like Absolut, BP and Harley-Davidson rely on us year after year.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

That said, implementing Lean concepts would undoubtedly be part of that strategy, for example, - Lean Warehousing : Many firms (both retailers and manufacturers) are now aggressively rolling out Lean in their warehouse operations. The key is to ensure strategy, planning and execution are integrated and aligned across global supply chains.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 19, 2022

The USPS announced this week that it is raising rates for commercial and retail parcels from early October through late January. Retail customers will see increases ranging from 30 cents to more than $6, depending on the weight of the package and the distance it must travel. MPO will continue to operate as a standalone company.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Lost Sales: A Preventable Loss of Potential Revenue Harvard Business Review reports that stockouts cost retailers $1 trillion yearly, with most purchases abandoned when items are unavailable. Business Challenge Replenishment: Lack of coordination of demand forecasting and inventory planning at a pan-organizational level.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

Jassy called generative AI a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that will change the way the company operates, and said Amazon is already using it in “virtually every corner of the company,” calling out the supply chain areas of inventory and demand planning as examples.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The onset of COVID and the rapidly changing environment of a pandemic-hit world has meant demand planning has become more difficult – and as a result, more critical – than ever. What is demand planning? Demand planning is the process of predicting what customer demand will be for a certain product.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Introduction We’ve written quite a few articles on specific aspects of demand planning, but we’ve never written an introductory piece for beginners or those looking for a refresher course. We plan to do this for sales and operations planning (S&OP) and some other areas of supply chain planning as well.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Surveys have shown that consumers are 71% more likely to make a purchase based on social media referrals, and 47% of millennials’ purchases are influenced by social media1. retail stores. retail stores. Given these staggering statistics, what are demand forecasters to do?

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 27, 2022

Vertical Integration in Retail. Necessity of Supply Chain Planning Software in Vertical Integration. At the back of your supply chain, you’ve got your raw materials being procured. In addition to owning and creating the product itself, Scoops now has a chain of branded retail shops. What is Vertical Integration?

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 14, 2022

When retailers join in — which is most of the time — dance steps become even more complex. Most business consultants today urge CPG manufacturers and retailers to become consumer-centric and demand-driven. Taking the Digital Path to Purchase. Sometimes CPG manufacturers take the lead and sometimes consumers take the lead.

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ThroughPut

MAY 31, 2024

trillion global grocery retail industry finds itself at a crossroads. Retailers are caught between the dilemma of empty store shelves and overstocked warehouses—a balancing act that demands constant attention. The outlook becomes even grimmer when considering the current methods of demand planning and forecasting in retail.

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ThroughPut

JULY 6, 2021

Thriving In ‘The New Normal’ With 5 Demand Planning & Forecasting Methods. Do you remember the time when the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns were announced across the world, followed by the panic purchase of essentials to the point where supermarkets and grocery stores were left with empty shelves?

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Logility

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Being a technical person, I was not sought out to assist in procuring fashion related items (bedspreads, towels, rugs, wall decorations), but was instead assigned to the refrigerator and microwave end of the spectrum. Dorm refrigerators and microwaves can be bought from a variety of retailers, both online and in-store.

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